Washington Nationals righthander Stephen Strasburg won’t pitch this postseason, though he tried to talk the team into letting him return, according to The Washington Post.

Strasburg, of course, was shut down the morning after his Sept. 7 start as a preventative measure in his first full season after Tommy John surgery. The team maintained all season that it would end his season at around 160 innings and that it wouldn’t reconsider that decision.

Stephen Straburg has been relegated to onlooker status for the Nationals this postseason. (AP Photo)

“It’s their call,” Strasburg told the newspaper. “It’d be pretty reckless to have me get on the mound and get going now after not even getting on the mound for a month. I talked to them about it for the week after that, but they were pretty firm. Now it’s to the point where I don’t think it would be smart for anybody to do that.”

But after the Nationals clinched a postseason berth and earned the No. 1 seed in the NL, there was renewed speculation that Strasburg’s season actually wasn’t over.

However, Strasburg won’t step on a mound in a game again until 2013, whether he likes it or not. And he still doesn’t like it.

“I’m still pretty upset. I’m kind of past that. It’s done with. There’s nothing you can do. I could sit here and be upset and not be a good teammate, but I don’t want to be that type of guy. I want to pull for these guys and make sure that everybody knows that I’m with them, even though I’m not out there playing,” he told The Washington Post.

Strasburg finished the season at 15-6 with a 3.16 ERA in 28 starts. He struck out 197 batters in 159 1/3 innings.